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A WROTHAM SLIPWARE DATED AND INITIALED PUZZLE TYG
Lot 155 SYD LEVETHAN: THE LONGRIDGE COLLECTION

A WROTHAM SLIPWARE DATED AND INITIALED PUZZLE TYG

DATED 1668, ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY IFIELD

Closed22 January 2021

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A WROTHAM SLIPWARE DATED AND INITIALED PUZZLE TYG
DATED 1668, ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY IFIELD
With four hollow double-loop handles, the dark-brown ground decorated in raised cream slip with stud and dot-ornament and a rectangular panel enclosing the date '1668' above the initials 'HI', a circular geometric shield above a lion's mask, an angel above the initials 'A:B' and an oval fleur-de-lys medallion above an animal, the handles with applied studs and rope twist-ornament
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high

Specialist note


Twenty-two vessels attributed to Henry Ifield from 1644 to the year of his death in 1669 have been recorded, many of which are of similar form to the present lot. For two examples in the Glaisher Collection, see B. Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 23 & 24, fig. 135 for an example dated 1668 and fig. 137 for an example dated 1669, pl. 12C.

For a detailed discussion on Henry Ifield see A.J.B. Kiddell. ‘Wrotham Slipware and the Wrotham Brickyard’, English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 1954, vol. III, pt. II, p. 108.